Be the change.

It's been awhile since I've used this blog but I figured it was time to get back into it. Have you ever wondered what it felt like to make a difference? To truly care about someone? To be the hands and feet of Jesus?

Well, if the answer is yes, then you're like me. If the answer is no then maybe you SHOULD think about those things. Ever since I was little I loved people, talking to people, being with people. I was NEVER afraid to go up to random strangers and start a conversation, I wasn’t scared of small talk in the grocery line. I love getting to know people, seeing their heart and learning their passions. Along with loving people came my desire to serve and to help others. You need help teaching? I'll be there. You need someone to pay for that for you? I'll pay for it. You need someone to help sing? I'll do it. You need someone to listen to you? I'll listen. And the list goes on.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to help! I love to listen, teach and to help pay for others. Impacting people for Jesus? That's one of the greatest things I get to do in this lifetime! Making a difference? YES.

Which is why it's so incredibly hard for me to see people who I care greatly about and who I think love Jesus and truly want to follow him NOT do anything. (As a disclaimer this post is in no way meant to judge anyone or hurt anyone it's simply meant to make you think and question and evaluate your own heart, like I'm doing to mine as I write this) We are a generation that I truly believe wants to be different and seeks to be different. So why then are our thoughts and desires not aligned with Christ and his heart for others? Why do we only seek to help our Christian brothers and sisters and completely neglect those that have not come to know Christ as their savior {yet}.One of my favorite verses in the bible comes from Proverbs 31 and it says this, "Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." Paying close attention to the last half of this verse, the poor and needy. Defend them. Take care of them. Are we taking action? Am I taking action? A popular worship song has the line "break my heart for what breaks yours" and we sing those lines like they're nothing. Oh yes, we sing the lyrics "Jesus break my heart for what breaks yours," but we don't mean them. We say them simply because they're in the song. Because if we truly wanted Jesus to break our hearts for what breaks his we would be called to ACTION and we wouldn't ignore the poor and needy or the helpless or the ones who can't take care of themselves. We would be called to HELP them and to SERVE them and ultimately show them Christ.

Because that's what Jesus did. He loved. He served. He cared for the people that no one else cared about, the ones who were sent away. And we just sit here, and watch and let someone else be Jesus for us. We say thank you God for blessing me yet do nothing to try and bless others. We see a need somewhere and we choose to consciously ignore it. And yea, maybe our hearts aren't always in the right place (that's a whole other blog post in and of itself). But, even so we should still be striving to imitate Christ with our lives and one of the biggest ways to do that is to take action.

James 1:22-25 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do."


Let's make a difference in this world.